Main Research Interests
- Intelligent Information Access (Recommender Systems, Information Filtering, Hybrid Recommendation Strategies)
- Information Retrieval (Natural Language Processing techniques, Personalized Retrieval)
- Semantic Web (Knowledge Representation, Ontologies)
Member of the Program Committee
Conferences
- MCCSIS 2009 (IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems), conferenza ISA 2009 (Intelligent Systems and Agents, Algarve, Portugal, June 17-23, 2009)
- PAKDD 2009 (13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009)
- ICADIWT 2009 (2nd IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, London, UK, August 4-6, 2009)
- NaBIC 2009 (World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, February 8-10, 2009)
- ECIR 2009 (31th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009)
- ISDA 2008 (8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 26-28, 2008)
- WSC 2008 (Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, November 10-21, 2008)
- RecSys 2008 (2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-25, 2008)
- ECML/PKDD 2008 (19th European Conference on Machine Learning & 12th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008)
- HIS 2008 (8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008)
- KES 2008 (12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
- DaWaK 2008 (10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008)
- ICADIWT 2008 (1st IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008)
- ADMA 2008 (4th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Chengdu, China, July 29-31, 2008)
- ECAI 2008 (18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, July 21-25, 2008)
- MCCSIS 2008 (IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems), conferenza ISA 2008 (Intelligent Systems and Agents, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 22-24, 2008)
- CILC 2008 (Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale), 23o Incontro Annuale dell’Associazione Italiana “Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti di Logic Programming” - GULP (Perugia, Italy, July 10-12, 2008)
- LREC 2008 (6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, May 26-June 1, 2008)
- ECIR 2008 (30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, March 30 - April 3, 2008)
- ECML/PKDD 2007 (18th European Conference on Machine Learning & 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007)
- HIS 2007 (7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Fraunhofer Center, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 17-19, 2007)
- KES 2007 (11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14, 2007)
- Special Track on AI for Intelligent Access to Multimedia Data at the AI*IA 2007 (10th International Congress of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, September 10-13, 2007)
- DaWaK 2007 (9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007)
- ADMA 2007 (3rd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, August 2007)
- MCCSIS 2007 (IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems), conferenza ISA 2007 (Intelligent Systems and Agents, Lisbon, Portugal, July 3-7, 2007)
- ECIR 2007 (29th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Rome, April 2-5, 2007)
- FOCI 2007 (1st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Special Session on Foundations on Hybrid Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007)
- SAC 2007 (22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Technical Track on Semantic Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition, Seoul, Korea, March 11-15, 2007)
- IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2007 (Salamanca, Spain, February 17-20, 2007)
- HIS 2006 - NCEI 2006 (6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and 4th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence, AUT Technology Park, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-15, 2006)
- KES 2006 (10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
- ECML 2006 (17th European Conference on Machine Learning, September 2006)
- PKDD 2006 (10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, September 2006)
- ISMIS 2006 (16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, September 2006)
- DaWaK 2006 (8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, September 2006)
- ADMA 2006 (2nd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, August 2006)
- WTAS 2006 (IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications and Services, July 2006)
- CILC 2006 (Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale), 21o Incontro Annuale dell’Associazione Italiana “Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti di Logic Programming” - GULP (Bari, June 2006)
- MCCSIS 2006 (IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems), conferenza ISA 2006 (Intelligent Systems and Agents, April 2006)
- IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2006 (February 2006)
- HIS 2005 (5th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, November 2005)
- ECML 2005 (16th European Conference on Machine Learning, October 2005)
- PKDD 2005 (9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, October 2005)
- ADMA 2005 (1st International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, July 22-24, 2005)
- IEA/AIE-2005 (18th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, June 2005)
- CILC 2005 (Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale), 20o Incontro Annuale dell’Associazione Italiana “Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti di Logic programming” - GULP (June 2005)
- MCCSIS 2005 (IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems), conferenza ISA 2005 (Intelligent Systems and Agents, April 2005)
- HIS 2004 (4th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, December 2004)
- ECML 2004 (15th European Conference on Machine Learning, September 2004)
- PAIS 2004 (Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, August 2004)
- HIS 2003 (3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, December 2003)
- IS 2003 (6th International Multi-Conference on Information Society, October 2003)
- CE 2003 (10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: research and applications, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, July 2003)
- ICML 2002 (19th International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2002)
- ICML 2000 (17th International Conference on Machine Learning, June-July 2000)
- AI*IA 1991 (2nd Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, October 1991)
Referee
International Volumes and Journals
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (ACM TOIT)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)
- Machine Learning Journal (MLJ)
- Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
- International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC)
- Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI)
- Bulletin of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL)
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)
- Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (IFS)
- Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal (AAI)
- AI Communications: The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence
- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)
- International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
International Conferences
- MAW 2009 (IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web)
- IJCAI-91, IJCAI-97, IJCAI-07 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- ML ‘92, ML ‘93, ML ‘94, ICML ‘96, ICML ‘99 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
- ECAI-92, ECAI-94, ECAI-96, ECAI-2004 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- ECML-94, ECML-98, ECML 2000, ECML/PKDD 2003 (European Conference on Machine Learning/European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
- AVI 2004 (Advanced Visual Interfaces) Workshop Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA)
- CHI 2002 (International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
- EURAM 2006 (Energizing European Management)
- IEEE IS 2006 (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems)
- ISMIS 2000 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)
- ECDL 2000 (European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries)
- ILP 2001 (International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming)
- SEKE ‘93 (International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering)
- EWSL-91 (European Working Session on Learning)
- AIIA ‘93, AIIA ‘95, AIIA ‘97, AIIA ‘99, AIIA ‘01, AIIA ‘03 (International Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
- KI-97 (German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- ICDAR ‘97 (IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition)
- SIGIR 2007 Poster and Demonstration
- SWAP-07 (Italian Workshop on the Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives)
- UAHCI 2005 (International Conference series on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction)
- VL97 (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1997)
- WSC6 (6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, 2001)
Associations
- IEEE Computer Society (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
- AAAI (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
- ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery), SIGART (Special Interest Group on ARTificial intelligence)
- IKS (The International Intelligent Knowledge Systems Society)
- AI*IA (Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale), della quale e’ nel consiglio direttivo dal 2006 e per la quale e’ stato Revisore dei Conti supplente
- ALP (The Association for Logic Programming)
- IGPL (Interest Group on Pure and Applied Logics)
- GULP (Gruppo ricercatori ed Utenti di Logic Programming), del quale e’ nel consiglio direttivo dal 2006
- AICA (Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico)
- SIGLEX (Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica)
- GRIN (GRuppo nazionale di INformatica)
- GNIM (Gruppo Nazionale di Informatica Matematica)